The impact of a PEER funded research project "Advancing the Practice of Cyclic Softening Assessments of Silts and Clays" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Armin W. Stuedlein, Oregon State University. The Research Team includes Ali Dadashiserej, Graduate Student.
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PEER has just published Report No. 2021/07 "Shake Table Tests on a Shallow Foundation on Liquefiable Soils Supported on Helical Piles." It was authored by Milad Jahed Orang and Ramin Motamed, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno.
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PEER has just published Report No. 2021/06 "F-Rec Framework: Novel Framework for Probabilistic Evaluation of Functional Recovery of Building Systems." It was authored by Vesna Terzic, Peny K. Villanueva, Daniel Saldana, Dong Y. Yoo, Department of Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering
Management, California State University Long Beach.
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The impact of a PEER funded research project "Statistical Variation of Seismic Damage Index (DI) of California Bridges" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Farzin Zareian, Professor, University of California, Irvine.
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The Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance (StEER) Network has issued a Preliminary Virtual Reconnaissance Report (PVRR) for the M7.2 Nippes, Haiti Earthquake that occurred on August 14, 2021.
The American Institute of Steel Construction has awarded its 2022 T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award to Amit Kanvinde, PhD, professor of civil and environmental engineering at the College of Engineering at University of California, Davis. The T.R.
The American Institute of Steel Construction has awarded the 2021 Terry Peshia Early Career Faculty Award to Erica Fischer, PE, PhD, Assistant Professor at Oregon State University. The Terry Peshia Early Career Faculty Award provides recognition to faculty who demonstrate promise in the areas of structural steel research, teaching, and other contributions to the structural steel industry.
The PEER Student Committee is pleased to present our next spotlighted researcher in the "Meet the PEER Students'' Series. The series features students and postdoctoral researchers who conduct exciting research projects, engage in leadership activities, and perform exceptional work. This month, we met Dr. Sifat Muin, a postdoctoral researcher at PEER.
We are excited to present PEER Student Representatives. These students will support the PEER Student Committee in implementing new initiatives during the 2021-2022 year.
The impact of a PEER funded research project "Machine Learning for Analysis and Risk Management of Complex Infrastructure Systems" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Jack W. Baker, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University. The Research Team includes Rodrigo Silva Lopez, PhD Student, Stanford University.
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PEER has just published Report No. 2021/05 "City-Scale Multi-Infrastructure Network Resilience Simulation Tool." It was authored by Kenichi Soga, Renjie Wu, Bingyu Zhao and Chaofeng Wang.
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The impact of a PEER funded research project "Liquefaction Evaluation of Gravelly Soils: An integrated Laboratory Testing and Numerical Modeling Approach" is highlighted below. The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, UC Berkeley. The Research Team includes Jongchan Kim, Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Berkeley; Bofei Xu, Ph.D. Student, UC Berkeley; Nathaniel Wagner, Ph.D., P.E., Slate Geotechnical Consultants; Misko Cubrinovski, Professor, University of Canterbury, NZ.
The PEER Student Committee is pleased to present our next spotlighted researcher in the "Meet the PEER Students'' Series. The series features students and postdoctoral researchers who conduct exciting research projects, engage in leadership activities, and perform exceptional work. This month, we met Francisco A. Galvis, a Ph.D. Student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University.
PEER is pleased to announce that the 2021 Blind Prediction Competition is now open!
This special issue of Earthquake Spectra showcases new developments in earthquake hazard and risk assessments relevant to Central and Eastern North America (CENA). This unique collection of papers marks a significant advancement in the documentation and understanding of hazard and risk of this stable continental region with rare but significant seismicity.
PEER has just published Report No. 2021/04: "Towards Multi-Tier Modeling of Liquefaction Impacts on Transportation Infrastructure." It was authored by Brett W. Maurer, Mertcan Geyin and Alex J. Baird, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington.
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The journal "Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering" is planning a special issue on innovations in structural health monitoring and has released a call for papers. Since 2001 twelve special issues of "Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering" have been devoted to Health Monitoring of Structures, and another special issue of the journal will be devoted to this topic in early 2022.
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